SAP Contributions to Open Source

SAP contributes actively to a number of Open Source projects. Below you find a list of (some of) the projects in which we are active. Please be aware that activities vary over time. Thus it may happen that the list is not always completely up-to-date.

BUILD is an open-source, cloud-based and social platform that enables users, even those with no UI development knowledge, to easily create fully interactive prototypes with realistic data, share them with colleagues and consolidate this feedback without writing a line of code

In the cloud era, the application platform will be delivered as a service, often described as Platform as a Service (PaaS). PaaS makes it much easier to deploy, run and scale applications. Some PaaS offerings have limited language and framework support, do not deliver key application services, or restrict deployment to a single cloud. Cloud Foundry is the industry’s Open PaaS and provides a choice of clouds, frameworks and application services. As an open source project, there is a broad community both contributing and supporting Cloud Foundry. (description is taken from here)

Dirigible is an open source project that provides Integrated Development Environment as a Service (IDEaaS) as well as runtime containers integration for the running applications. The environment itself runs directly in browser and therefore does not require additional downloads and installations. It packs all the needed components, which makes it self-contained and well integrated software bundle that can be deployed on any Java based Web Server. (description is taken from here)

The Virgo Web Server is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications with a high degree of flexibility and reliability. It offers a simple yet comprehensive base to develop, deploy, and service enterprise Java applications.

Spring Cloud aims to simplify the development of cloud applications by providing connectors for popular PaaS platforms. This way, developers can abstract service discovery (e.g. a data source) within their apps making it easy to deploy the apps to various platforms without the need for tight-coupling. For more details please have a look here.

SAP Lumira is a tool for data visualization. We know that there’s always that edge case, which makes a certain chart type great just for your story. Web IDE and the VizPacker plugin are used to develop visualization extensions for SAP Lumira. Here is the GitHub repository for all these awesome open-sourced visualization extensions.

SAP Lumira is a tool for data visualization. We know that there’s always that edge case, which makes a certain chart type great just for your story. Web IDE and the VizPacker plugin are used to develop visualization extensions for SAP Lumira. Here is the GitHub repository for all these awesome open-sourced data access extensions.

OpenUI5 is an Open Source web UI toolkit released under the Apache 2.0 license by SAP. SAPUI5 is SAP's javascript frontend toolkit and uses large parts of OpenUI5. The technology stack both projects are built on is often referred to as UI5 in short. It is built on web standards like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.